There was a great Bill Cosby piece about Saturday night getting drunk, throwing up, falling down, "and this was called FUN". ;-)
-Ben At 07:41 PM 3/4/03 -0500, you wrote: >If I was having /that/ good a time, I'm generally thinking more along the >lines of "Oh, damn. Reality again." :-) > > >-- Ben Doom > Programmer & General Lackey > Moonbow Software, Inc > >: -----Original Message----- >: From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 7:27 PM >: To: CF-Community >: Subject: RE: Funny Code Comments >: >: >: For years that was a saying of mine, usually after a fairly >: intense/wild/debauched night. >: >: larry >: >: >BenD- >: > >: >re: dummy functions that work: >: > >: >"Reality - What a Concept" >: > >: >(this was a quote from Robin Williams. >: >The idea of mixing Reality and Robin in the same sentence is an >: oxymoron <g>) >: > >: >which BTW is the t-shirt my wife brought me to wear home from >: the hospital >: >on Sunday - >: >she has a good sense of humor also (hey, she puts up with me!!) >: > >: >-Ben >: > >: > >: >At 04:43 PM 3/4/03 -0500, you wrote: >: >>Of all the comments about code I've made, my favorite was >: actually out loud. >: >> >: >>During a programming contest, I finished up a couple of >: routines and ran the >: >>thing to make sure it compiled, didn't get any runtime errors, >: etc. When it >: >>finished, I looked at the screen completely baffled. >: >> >: >>"Did it work?" asked my partner. >: >>"Yeah." I replied. >: >>"So?" >: >>"It shouldn't have. This here just throws a constant -- it's just dummy >: >>code." >: >> >: >>So I ran it on the second test case. Worked again. Instant confusion. >: >> >: >>Turns out that '3' or whatever the dummy function was returning >: turned out >: >>to be correct for a small but significant section of the >: problem space, but >: >>for that first few seconds it was a really /wierd/ feeling. >: >> >: >> >: >>-- Ben Doom >: >> Programmer & General Lackey >: >> Moonbow Software, Inc >: >> >: >>: -----Original Message----- >: >>: From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: >>: Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:18 PM >: >>: To: CF-Community >: >>: Subject: Funny Code Comments >: >>: >: >>: >: >>: Nick- >: >>: re: the code comments, >: >>: Worked once at EDS on an obscure mainframe - Burroughs 4800 >: >>: running MCP-V OS. Check processing application. Program which ran >: >>: the MICR (magnetic ink)check sorter machines had a bold comment >: >>: box at the top of a dense section of assembler code: "Abandon all >: >>: hope he who changeth code between lines x and y". Nobody new >: >>: exactly what the code did, but you couldn't touch it. >: >>: :-) >: >>: >: >>: Another funny by an irreverent lead programmer at Del Monte >: >>: Foods, in the COBOL Security paragraph: >: >>: Security. Post 2 armed guards. >: >>: >: >>: -Ben >: >>: >: >> >: > >: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
